samba - Jul 2000 - Samba conf. problem - NetBIOS problem?

Thanks to those who wrote and suggested I remove NetBEUI from my Win95 machines.
Here's the next chapter in the story:

First, based on another suggestion, I tried "netstat -a" on the Win95
machine "secretary".  It didn't show any kind of traffic on ports
137-139 (even though files WERE being shared at the time).

Next, I tried removing NetBEUI from "secretary", leaving only TCP/IP
bound to the NIC.  The box in the TCP/IP->NIC window under NetBIOS that says
"I want to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" is grayed out, but it IS
checked.
 
MS Client and File/Print sharing were still installed, and both were bound to
TCP/IP, which was bound to the NIC.

However, once I removed NetBEUI and rebooted, I could no longer see any
computers under Network Neighborhood.  When I tried to do a "NET USE *
\\somemachine\someshare" in DOS, it gave me this error: "You must log
on before performing this operation."
 
Now the Win95 login box DOES still pop up when I boot the computer, and I'm
still using "Client For MS Networks" as my Primary Network Logon. Yet
my local file/print sharing connection were gone.

The only way I could once again see the other Win95 machines on the LAN was to
reinstall NetBEUI.
 
Does that mean NetBIOS isn't being shared over TCP/IP after all?  Why not?

Thanks!


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[George Adams <learningapache@my-Deja.com>]
> However, once I removed NetBEUI and rebooted, I could no longer see
> any computers under Network Neighborhood.  When I tried to do a "NET
> USE * \\somemachine\someshare" in DOS, it gave me this error:
"You
> must log on before performing this operation."
Did you give it, say, ten minutes to get its browse list up-to-date?

Did you try removing NetBEUI on multiple machines to see if they could
then see each other?

Does the Linux box see SECRETARY, with only TCP/IP enabled?  (Try
nmblookup.)

Your network is so small and simple that it shouldn't be necessary, but 
one thing that makes name lookups more reliable is WINS.  It's really
really simple to set up.  Add the line "wins support = yes" to your
smb.conf file, and add 192.168.1.1 to your "wins address" lines on
your
Win95 boxes.

Yes, lines, plural.  Some versions of Windows seem to have a bug where
they do not use WINS unless both address boxes are filled in.  Use the
same IP number twice.

Peter